Re: [Talk-ca] WikiProject Canada Post - franchise assessment

[Amos Hayes]

Using the term "import" suggests some sort of copy of a database rather
than an independant researching of facts.

Facts are not protected IP. Databases are in Canada. So making your own
database of facts is fine. The issue will be if all or a significant
portion were copied from someone else's database and whether a court of law
finds that it constitutes a copy. An automated tool that scraped the Canada
Post website for this info would probably be seen differently than a
spreadsheet built through individual research using a variety of sources.

All that said, Canada Post tried to sue when a group crowd-sourced the
locations of postal codes. So even if you are in the right, there might
still be a mess to deal with.

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On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 09:09, Justin Tracey  wrote:

> Is it legal to import that data from the Canada Post site?
>
>  - Justin
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 8:04 AM David Nelson via Talk-ca <
> talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
>> I have just finished assessing which post offices in Canada among those
>> we have not yet added to OSM are franchises, and which of those franchise
>> outlets' parent businesses already appear in our database.  Those such
>> locations are now marked in pale red on the project's spreadsheets.  The
>> node for each such post office location just has to be positioned right
>> next to its respective parent business.  You can determine what each parent
>> business is by looking on Canada Post’s own website, or by doing a simple
>> web search for the postal code of each such outlet.  With this, we are in a
>> position to immediately add nearly 700 more Canada Post outlets across the
>> country to OSM.  This would bring the progress of this project to a
>> completion measure of just under 48 percent.
>>
>>
>>
>> - David E. Nelson
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Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging paths that are snowploughed?

[Amos Hayes]

FYI, the Ottawa cycling community is using "seasonal=no" on pathways to
indicate winter maintenance.

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On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 at 19:01, John Whelan  wrote:

> Yes but for the path I'm thinking of that crosses a park specifically I'm
> interested in tagging it just for cycling not a more generic case.
>
> Do you have another suggestion than winter_service=yes|no I think the
> default is yes so just tagging the ones that aren't cleared would be
> sufficient.
>
> Thanks
>
> Cheerio John
>
> Pierre Béland wrote on 2018-11-19 6:41 PM:
>
> Il y a plusierus facettes à considérer ici, soit accès hivernal, état du
> sentier et services accessibles.
>
> La clé winter_service=yes indiquerait simplement que le sentier est
> disponible l'hiver et ne permettrait pas d'indiquer que le sentier est
> nettoyé facilitant l'accès aux velos.
>
> Voici un usage différent mais qui nous éclaire sur les clés utiliisées
> pour décrire un service hivernal.
>
> La Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road (chemin 50426104) est un autre type de service
> hivernal (Service abandonné l'hiver dernier suite à l'ouverture d'une
> nouvelle route).
>
> Dans ce deuxième cas, cette tant le service que la piste n'existent que
> l'hiver.
> Les clés OSM utilisées pour les décrire sont
> ice_road=yes
> surface=ice
>
> Pierre
>
>
> Le lundi 19 novembre 2018 17 h 20 min 53 s HNE, john whelan
>   a écrit :
>
>
> Sounds perfect.
>
> Thanks John
>
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, 5:07 pm Yaro Shkvorets 
> winter_service=yes|no seems perfectly fine:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key%3Awinter_service
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 4:54 PM john whelan  wrote:
>
> Locally some paths across parks etc are snow cleared some aren't.  The
> ones that are are useful for cycling in the winter.
>
> Any suggestions on tags?
>
> Thanks John
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